The Way He Looks movie: Gay teen love story about blind boy who falls in love with a school friend is Brazil entry for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
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Norma Bengell and John Herbert in As Cariocas. Norma Bengell: Iconic (and controversial) Brazilian film, stage & TV star made history as first actress seen naked (full frontal) in a…
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Carlos Reichenbach: The Forbidden Paradise / O Paraíso Proibido. Carlos Reichenbach, a Brazilian filmmaker and cinematographer perhaps best known for his sex comedies and dramas of the 1970s and early 1980s,…
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Bin Laden movie & Obama Administration connection: Republican congressman wants investigation The Hurt Locker‘s Academy Award winners Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal have been receiving assistance from the Barack Obama…
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Paul Leni’s The Man Who Laughs, starring Conrad Veidt and Mary Philbin. Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Alida Valli, Pierre Brasseur, Angela Lansbury, Conrad Veidt, Sean Connery, John Wayne, Gene Wilder,…
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Lula, The Son of Brazil: Mother Glória Pires and her seven children, including Felipe Falanga (yellow shirt) as the boy Lula Unanimity isn’t what it used to be. First, Quentin…
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Tônia Carrero, Anselmo Duarte in Tico-Tico no Fubá Brazilian actor and filmmaker Anselmo Duarte, whose 1962 anti-religious intolerance drama Keeper of Promises remains the only Brazilian production to have won…
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Cao Hamburger directed The Year My Parents Went on Vacation. Set in 1970, the year Brazil (or rather, the soccer team representing the country) won the World Cup, O Ano em…
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Dercy Gonçalves Dercy Gonçalves dies at 101: Brazilian show business icon was a stage, film + television star Dercy Gonçalves, a Brazilian stage, film, television, and carnival superstar for nearly…
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The Elite Squad with Wagner Moura. The second Brazilian production to win the Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear, José Padilha’s Tropa de Elite / The Elite Squad, a violent tale…
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Aurora Miranda: Carmen Miranda Sister + fiery fancy-hat-wearing Phantom Lady singer also enthralled Donald Duck in Disney’s The Three Caballeros.
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Gog 1954 (2001: A Space Odyssey precursor) director Herbert L. Strock + Brazilian producer of Cinema Novo classics The Guns and Ganga Zumba remembered.
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Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (movie 2005) review: Set in Brazil’s impoverished and semi-arid northeastern hinterlands, this road movie offers more than big-screen ‘exoticism.’
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Brazilian cinema at MoMA Brazilian cinema will return to New York City’s Museum of Modern Art in July. MoMA will be presenting the third edition of “Premiere Brazil!” between July…
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The Other Side of the Street / O Outro Lado da Rua (movie 2004) review: Shades of Alfred Hitchcock and Michelangelo Antonioni in Rio-set Fernanda Montenegro showcase.
José Padilha’s Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within is officially the biggest blockbuster ever at the Brazilian box office, surpassing Avatar.
Gay brothers’ incest tale From Beginning to End with Rafael Cardoso and João Gabriel Vasconcelos. Brazilian filmmaker Aluízio Abranches’ Do Começo ao Fim (From Beginning to End), which revolves around…
Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred Zinnemann, Fay Wray, Henri-Georges Clouzot, T.E.B. Clarke, Yves Allégret, Dan Duryea, Paula Wessely, Burgess Meredith, John Wayne, Gene Autry, Run Run Shaw, and the list…
Sex and violence in Brazil’s military dictatorship: ‘Damned Brazilian Movies!’ Every Thursday, the Casa França-Brasil in downtown Rio de Janeiro has been presenting the movie series “Malditos Filmes Brasileiros!” (Damned…